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What We Do

  • Recognizing: Annual Heritage Awards
  • Celebrating: Heritage Week featuring the annual poster
  • Learning: Webinars, Workshops, Open Forums and Online Discussions
  • Networking: Annual Heritage Conference
  • Supporting: Heritage Legacy Fund and other grant programs
  • Communicating: Heritage Update, a weekly report of key dates, news and activities

Four people looking in glass-toped display case. In a museum with yellow walls and framed pictures.Established in 1981, Heritage BC is a charitable society with members who are the custodians of BC’s heritage with a focus on learning, preserving, conserving, interpreting and promoting heritage in trust for the benefit of society, its development and its enjoyment.

HBC organizes events and workshops for the heritage community, publishes a newsletter, oversees the BC Heritage Awards, produces an annual conference, and advocates on behalf of the heritage community. Heritage BC has developed learning guides, including A Guide to Making a Case for Heritage and Heritage Conservation Tools: Resource Guides. Working with the Province of BC, Heritage produced The State of Heritage report, which proposes twelve broad recommendations, supported with actions that aim to evolve current systems, to positively affect the state of heritage, and to support the sector in reaching its aspirations.

In February 2013, Heritage BC was appointed as administrator of the Heritage Legacy Fund, which was originally established in 2004 by the Province of B.C. Drawing on the interest of a $5 million endowment, held with the Vancouver Foundation, over $2 million has been delivered to communities in every region of B.C.

Heritage BC works closely with the Heritage Branch, Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, supporting the government in meeting its goals. This includes fee-for-service contracts to produce the annual Heritage Conservation in B.C. Factsheet and cultural maps.

In 2016, Heritage BC began a key relationship with the Columbia Basin Trust to deliver grant programs and to provide professional staff support for museum, heritage and archive organizations in the Columbia Basin.

We are currently working on a new strategic plan, but you may wish to see our current vision and goals in our 2019-2021 Strategic Plan.

Climate Adaptation: Making a Case
Intangible Cultural Heritage
Setting the Bar: A Reconciliation Guide

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104-1015 Columbia Street
New Westminster, Bc V3M 6V3

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As an organization of provincial scope, Heritage BC recognizes that its members, and the local history and heritage they seek to preserve, occupy the lands and territories of B.C.’s Indigenous peoples. Heritage BC asks its members and everyone working in the heritage sector to reflect on the places where they reside and work, and to respect the diversity of cultures and experiences that form the richness of our provincial heritage.